Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 35947, Joseph Foss, Mass.

SERVICE
Dear,
Fass, Joseph
NUMBER _____
NUMBER S. 35947
CONTENTS

17,450 B Maine
Joseph Folsom of Dixfield in the state of Maine who was a Private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Cupper of the Massachusetts line, for the term of Three years
Inscribed on the Roll of Maine at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 24 of April 1819
Certificate of Pension issued the 9 th of June 1820 and sent to Albion & Paris John Mayberry Portland Maine
Arrears to 4th of March 1820 $ 82.89 Semi-ann. all'ce ending 4 Sep 1820  48,
10 mo 7/30 4/31 $ 130.89
{ Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818. }
Continued

Notification sent the 3 d July 1820, to John Mussey Esq.
Portland
Maine
Joseph the Xmas 28 th

Notification about the 3rd July 1920, to John Murray James Esq.
On Hand
Mrs. ...
Copied the same as

I Joseph Foss a resident citizen of the United States and an inhabitant of Biscofield in the District of Maine aged sixty one years being duly sworn do depose and say that I enlisted as a private soldier I think not long after the battle of Monmouth in 1778 in Capt Hunt's company Colonel Jackson's regiment of the Massachusetts Line Continental Establishment for the period of three years which I faithfully served and was Honorably discharged at Westpoint which said discharge I have long since lost: that I joined the army at Westpoint in the third brigade went from thence to New Windsor - thence to New York lines, thence back to Westpoint; that about ten years since I was storing a well when a rock fell down upon my head and cut it very severely since which my memory has been bad and I cannot now distinctly recollect the circumstances which transpired while I was in the service: that after I was discharged from the three years service I returned home to Scarborough and remained there about two or three months when I enlisted I think the spring of 1782 as a recruit for said town for the period of nine months and joined the army at Newberg in the State of New York and was then turned into Capt Daniel Smith's company Colonel Tupper's Regiment of the Massachusetts Line Continental Establishment under whom I served until the regiments was broken up in the month of December when I was transferred to Capt Hastings company the name of the Colonel of the regiment I do not recollect and served in said company until my time expired and I was discharged at Westpoint. That I am not borne on any Pension Roll: that by reason of my reduced circumstances in life I am in need of the assistance of my country for support according to the provision of the Act of Congress passed the 18 th March A.D. 1818
Witness, A. H. Parsons.
Joseph his  to Foss mark
Subscribed and sworn to this twenty first day of April A.D. 1819
Before me
Albion H. Parsons No. S. Dist. Judge etc

Daniel Lunt of Westbrook in the District of Maine being duly sworn before me say that during the years of 1777-'78 & '79 I was a Lieutenant in Colonel Francis' afterwards Col Foster's Regiment of the Massachusetts Line Continental Es- tablishment, and in 1780 was promoted to a Captain - that I well know Joseph Foss who subscribed the within declar- ation: that upon said Foss discharge from the three years ser- vice at Westpoint - I well recollect his coming to bid fare- well to his acquaintances who belonged to our company & that I sent him by him a fowling piece - that in the spring or summer of 1782 he was attached to my company at Westpoint under his second enlistment and served faith- fully & honestly until the regiment was broken up in the early part of the winter of 1782 when I was transferred to the first Massachusetts Regiment and hence no doubt that he said Foss served the residue of his enlistment under Capt Hartings he not being transferred with me to the said first Regiment - that in my opinion said Foss is by reason of his reduced circumstances in need of the assistance of his country for support
Daniel Lunt
Subscribed and sworn to this twenty first day of April A.D. 1818
Before me
Alcibiades H. Paris
No. J. Dist. Judge etc.

N o 226. Joseph Foss
Copy
(17.456)
(Sept. 1890)

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. DISTRICT OF MAINE, ss.
At a District Court of the United States begun and holden at Portland within and for the District of Maine, on the first Tuesday, being the sixth . . . day of June and by adjournment from day to day, on the twenty third day of June. in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty, before the Honorable ALBION K. PARRIS, Judge of said Court.
ON this twenty third day of June . . . in the year above written, personally appeared in open Court, the same having "the power of fine and imprisonment," and being a Court of Record for said Maine District, Joseph Sois . . . aged sixty . . . years, resident in New Gloucester in said District, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows, viz. as a private . . . in the company commanded by Capt. Henley . . . in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Jackson . . . in the line of the State of Massachusetts on the Continental Establishment, as is more particularly mentioned and described in his original declaration, made on the 22 nd . . . day of April . . . A. D. 1819, and on which said declaration his Certificate of Pension, numbered 17456 . . . was granted. And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March 1818; and that I have not since that time by gift, sale, or in any manner disposed of my property, or any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an Act of Congress, entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States, in the Revolutionary War," passed on the 18th day of March, 1818: and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property or securities, contracts, or debts due to me; nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed, and by me subscribed; that my occupation and ability to pursue the same, together with the number and other particulars of my family, are in fact and in truth as is particularly described on the back hereof, also subscribed by me.
Witness J. Mussey Jr.  Joseph X Sois marks
Sworn to and declared, on the twenty third day of June A. D. 1820.
BEFORE Albion K. Parris { U. S. District Judge for the District of Maine.

SCHEDULE of the real and personal estate, (necessary clothing and bedding excepted) belonging to me the subscriber, viz:
Real Estate — I have none — I live in a small log house by sufferance —
Personal estate — one hog — and a few articles of necessary but poor furniture — I have no income — nor any money due me — nor have I any other property
Witness John Mupsey Jun
Joseph his X Fofs mark
Sworn to June 23. 1820 Before
Albion K. Barris U.S. Dist. Judge
SCHEDULE of the family residing with me Joseph Fofs . . . . . who, by occupation am a Laborer, . . . which I am still able to pursue by reason of in part only; having about fifteen years since received a bad wound on my head, while stoneing a well
   NAMES. AGES. Capacity of each to contribute to their support.     Wife, Nancy . . . 51 able to do housework — consumptive   Hanson . . . 6 totally unable to support himself   Witness Mupsey Jun Joseph his X Fofs mark  
Sworn to Before
Albion K. Barris U.S. Dist. Judge

MAINE DISTRICT, ss.
I, JOHN MUSSEY, Junr. Clerk of the District Court of the United States for Maine District, do hereby certify, that the foregoing oath, and the schedules thereto annexed, are truly copied from the Record of the said Court; and I do further certify, that it is the opinion of the said Court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule, is nine . . . . dollars and ninety two . . cents. and no more
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this twenty third day of June . . . A. D. one thousand eight hundred and twenty.
John Mussey Junr
{ Clerk of the U. States District Court for Maine District.
$9.92

FOSS, JOSEPH (MASS.) S-35947

Major Genl Knox, Commanding the Garrison West Point & its dependencies —
Joseph Trost, who is in the 3 d Mass s Reg t being enlisted for the war, is hereby honorably discharged the service of the United States
Given at West Point the 28 day of Dec r 93.
By the Generals Command J t Sillivside d. Camp.
H. Knox M c General
Registered in the books of the Reg t
John C. Stafford Adj t

35 947 Rev INVALID.
File No. 35-947
Joseph Foss His Rev. wife
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 142
[Arrangement of 1870.]

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
MAINE DISTRICT, ss.
BE IT REMEMBERED, That on the twenty fourth day of April in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and seventeen  nineteen , personally came Joseph Foss the applicant named in the papers hereunto annexed, and after being duly cautioned and examined, made oath that the several statements by him made in the annexed application, signed in my presence, are wholly true.
And the said applicant further offered in evidence the testimony under oath of Daniel Lunt a commissioned officer stating that he the said Foss served as a private soldier for the period of nine months & upwards on the continental establishment during the revolutionary war and that by reason of his reduced circumstances in life is in need of the assistance of his country for support
And it appearing to me in the examination here had, that the several persons above named are credible witnesses, I do hereby admit the annexed declarations as evidence, and certify the same as being satisfactory proof to me that the said Joseph Foss the applicant, served as a private in the revolutionary war, against the common enemy, for the term of nine months and upwards in continuation on the continental establishment. And I do further certify, that from the declaration of the applicant made before me, under oath as aforesaid, it does appear that in consequence of his reduced circumstances in life, he is in need of assistance from his country for support; all which I do hereby certify and transmit to the Secretary of the Department of War, agreeably to the provisions of an Act of Congress, passed March 18, 1818, entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war."
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused my Official Seal to be affixed the day and year first mentioned.
Albion H. Parris
Judge of the United States in and for the District of Maine.
And I further certify that it has been proved to my satisfaction that said Foss by reason of his reduced circumstances in life is in need of the assistance of his country for support
Albion H. Parris
U. S. Dist. Judge

Joseph Soff - private Col Jacksons Regiment Massachusetts Line 1778 - 3 years
Not on Roll Rejected $
Joseph Soff
admitted in Co. Henry Jackson reg. Decr 24 ap. 1819
Discharge herewith
M o Mussey Jun r ag. Portland M e

I Joseph Foss a resident citizen of the State of Maine being duly sworn do before say in continuation in addition to the declaration made by me on the twenty fourth day of April A.D. Eighteen hundred nineteen before the Honorable Albin H. Parris Judge of the United States in and for said State Maine, that I enlisted into Captain Handley's company Colonel Henry Jackson's Regiment of the Massachusetts Line of the Continental Establishment for the period of three years: that I served in said company until the Regiment was broken up in November Seventeen hundred eighty two, when I was transferred to the third Massachusetts Regiment in which I served until I was discharged on the twenty eighth day of October Seventeen hundred eighty three at Westpoint in the State of New York: that the annexed discharge signed by General Henry Shaw  is the same Honorable discharge which I received when discharged and which discharge I misplaced when I made the former declaration to have been lost as I left it with Judge Southgate about a year after I was discharged for the purpose of obtaining the balance of wages and who upon my calling upon him for it previous to my first declaration informed me he could not find it & supposed it was lost, but which upon a recent examination of his papers was found in the same which is hereto annexed.  Joseph Foss Mark
Witness John Mufsey Junr
Subscribed and sworn to before me this twenty fourth day of March A.D. 1820
Albin H. Parris U. S. Dist. Judge

I Levi Morse of Grey in the county of Cumberland & State of Maine being duly sworn do depose & say that I am well acquainted with Joseph Foss who was a private soldier in Capt Handley's company in the ninth Massachusetts Regiment commanded by Colonel Henry Jackson; that said Foss belonged to said company from the last of May or first of June Seventeen hundred and eighty one and continued in said company until some time in November Seventeen hundred & eighty at which time the Regiment was broken up that during the above period I was a private soldier in said company and said Foss was a messmate of mine about three months at Flag's point about 25 miles below Westport; that I well know of his serving in said Regiment upwards of twelve months; that I understood he had enlisted for three years; after the Regiment was broken up he was transferred to a different Regiment from that to which I belonged and the said Foss whom I knew in the service is the same man who subscribed the annexed additional declaration this day made before the Honorable Albron H. Davis Levi Morse
Cumberland ss
March 24 th 1820 Personally appeared the above named Levi Morse and made oath to the truth of the foregoing deposition by him subscribed
Before me John Nufsey Just of the Peace

United States of America Maine District ss
I hereby certify that John Mufey Jms who subscribed the certificate to the within deposition is a Justice of the Peace for the county of Cumberland within said Maine District. In testimony whereof I have here- unto set my hand and official seal this twenty fifth day of March A.D. Eighteen hundred & twenty
Albion H. Parris U.S. Dist. Judge
United States of America Maine District ss
The within named Joseph Fols having appeared & made oath to the additional declaration by him signed and produced his original honorable discharge and the deposition of Levi Morse, all which are hereto annexed. I hereby certify that it appears and is proved to my satisfaction by said documents that he the said Joseph Fols did serve as a private during the Revolutionary War for the period of nine months and upwards in continuation on the Continental Es- tablishment and that his "reduced circumstances in life rendering the assistance of his country necessary for his support" remain as certified in the within certificate by me granted on the 24 th day of April A.D. Eighteen hundred and nineteen
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and official seal this twenty fifth day of March A.D. Eighteen hundred & twenty
Albion H. Parris U.S. Dist. Judge